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La Candelaria by Pedro Luis de Aguinaga – Spanish

Every year I write about Candlemas Day as it is celebrated in Oaxaca and in Brooklyn and other parts in the New York City area and you can read about it in English here. Maybe you’ll want...

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Candlemas Tamal de Cazuela

Somehow I can’t the picture to come to the top so please scroll down. Tamal de Cazuela “Pot Tamal” without Wrapping Cubans have their beloved tamal en cazuela, Veracruzans have this near relative...

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Fortuna Bukharian Restaurant a fortuitous find in Rego Park

A modest picture for a great restaurant and it’s kosher if you ever need to take some friends who like that. The New York times insisted we visit Shalom Restaurant in an article that had not been updated since...

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My Music Week

If I started my week on Friday, January 20th, when Alvaro Paulino, the charming, brilliant violinist founder of the Mariachi Tapatio de Alvaro Paulino , picked and rehearsed the songs that we plan to record for an album to...

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